Mary Beard Quotes
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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War is over if you want it.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney Spears and the war in Iraq. Where's the substantive news? Where's the Zach Braff coverage?
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Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
